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  • Forgotten Tales of New Mexico

    by Ellen Dornan ...
    Series series Forgotten Tales
    New Mexico, a place defined by a history of grand conflicts, conquistadores, Pueblo warriors, and nuclear scientists, will celebrate its state centennial in 2012. What better time for a collection of forgotten tales that recounts the adventures and exploits of priests, soldiers, witches, and politicians, who carved out a living in the harsh frontier. Ellen will introduce the reader to a cross ... Read more

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  • The Liars' Club

    A Memoir

    by Mary Karr ...
    “Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.comThe New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Men Who Wear the Star

    The Story of the Texas Rangers

    by Charles M. Robinson III ...
    Here is the first full telling of the most colorful and famous law enforcers of our time. For years, the Texas Rangers have been historical figures shrouded in myth. Charles M. Robinson III has sifted through the tall tales to reach the heart of this storied organization. The Men Who Wear the Star details the history of the Rangers, from their beginnings, spurred by Stephen Austin, and their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Letters from the Dust Bowl

    by Caroline Henderson ...
    In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of our farm problems." His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson’s articles, which had been published in Atlantic Monthly since 1931. Even today, Henderson’s articles are frequently cited for her vivid descriptions of the dust ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Deadliest Outlaws

    The Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch, Second Edition

    by Jeffrey Burton ...
    Series series A. C. Greene Series
    After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was cruel and unusual for the offense charged. The appeal failed and he became the first individualand the lastever to be executed for a crime of this sort. He was hanged in 1901; in a macabre ending to his life of crime, his head was torn away by the rope as he fell from ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Portrait of Route 66

    Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives

    by T. Lindsay Baker ...
    By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these postcards with colorful images served as advertisements for roadside businesses.While cherished by collectors, these postcard depictions do not always reflect reality. They often present instead a view enhanced for promotional purposes. Portrait of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Samuel May Williams Home

    The Life and Neighborhood of an Early Galveston Entrepreneur

    by Margaret Swett Henson, Deoloce Parmalee ...
    Series Book 7 - Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series
    Built in the winter of 1839-1840, this house, and the Texas pioneer who inhabited it, are the central focus of this thoroughly researched and well-written study of Galveston's merchant elite—Gail Borden, Michel Menard, Thomas McKinney, and others—a generation of leaders who did much to shape their city and Texas itself. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Downfall of Galveston's May Walker Burleson

    Texas Society Marriage & Carolina Murder Scandal

    by T. Felder Dorn ...
    "The story of May Walker Burleson's murder of her ex-husband's second wife . . . A meticulously researched work, [it] captures its era perfectly."— Galveston County Daily NewsJennie May Walker Burleson was envied for having everything a woman of her time could want—the privileged upbringing, the dazzling good looks, the dashing war hero husband. She was admired for demonstrating that a woman could ... Read more

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  • State of Minds

    Texas Culture and Its Discontents

    by Don Graham ...
    Series series Charles N. Prothro Texana Series
    John Steinbeck once famously wrote that "Texas is a state of mind." For those who know it well, however, the Lone Star State is more than one mind-set, more than a collection of clichés, more than a static stereotype. There are minds in Texas, Don Graham asserts, and some of the most important are the writers and filmmakers whose words and images have helped define the state to the nation, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Big Spring and Howard County

    by Tammy Burrow Schrecengost ...
    Series series Images of America
    While Native Americans had been visiting the oasis at the cross roads of the Comanche War Trail for hundreds of years, Captain Randolph Marcy was the first White man to "discover" the springs on October 3, 1849. Settlers moved their families to the area, and the region quickly developed into a ranching and farming community. Captured here in over 200 vintage images are the trials and triumphs of ... Read more

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  • Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881

    by Rick Miller ...
    In 1874, the Texas legislature created the Frontier Battalion, the first formal, budgeted organization as an arm of state government of what historically had been periodic groups loosely referred to as Texas Rangers. Initially created to combat the menace of repeated raids of Indians from the north and from Mexico into frontier counties, the Battalion was led by an unusual choice: a frail, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Legendary Locals of Coppell

    by Shaun M. Jex ...
    Series series Legendary Locals
    Coppell has produced a wealth of personalities that could have leapt from the pages of a novel. The town's early days brought John and Sarah Stringfellow, who helped found the town's oldest church, and Josiah and John Record, a father-and-son duo who were victims of lynching. The coming of the Cottonbelt Railroad created the mystery of town namesake George Coppell. The town was home to farmers ... Read more

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